Full name: The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning

Author: James E. Lovelock Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780465015498 9780465019076 0465015492

Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called "green" products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, the eminent scientist James Lovelock argues that the earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent "hot state" - and much more quickly than most specialists think. There is nothing humans can do to reverse the process; the planet is simply too overpopulated to halt its own destruction by greenhouse gases.In order to survive, mankind must start preparing now for life on a radically changed planet. The meliorist approach outlined in the Kyoto Treaty must be abandoned in favor of nuclear energy and aggressive agricultural development on the small areas of earth that will remain arable. A reluctant jeremiad from one of the environmental movement's elder statesmen, The Vanishing Face of Gaia offers an essential wake-up call for the human race.   Similar books: The Revenge of Gaia by James E. Lovelock Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand The End of Nature by Bill McKibben The God Species by Mark Lynas Eaarth by Bill McKibben Gaia by James E. Lovelock Earth in the Balance by Al Gore Six degrees by Mark Lynas The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming by Laurie David The Ages of Gaia by James E. Lovelock High Tide by Mark Lynas The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora